Would You Survive?????? WILDERNESS IQ. 1. Drinking Urine FALSE. It contains too many toxins/salts. To cool off you can use it by dousing a shirt or bandana.

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Presentation on theme: "Would You Survive?????? WILDERNESS IQ. 1. Drinking Urine FALSE. It contains too many toxins/salts. To cool off you can use it by dousing a shirt or bandana."— Presentation transcript:

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8. TRUE A three ounce hamburger patty made from lean ground beef has about 145 calories and about 15 grams of protein. Approximately 10 large grasshoppers offer about 121 calories and 13 grams of protein.

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22. If you can’t do C, do B. Downed trees form underwater obstacles called strainers, which can snare and drown swimmers. (one point for each)

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23. C and D (1 point for each) Contrary to Hollywood theatrics, most drowning victims do not make a sound. The body’s instinctive response blocks voluntary actions like shouting or waving. All actions center around inhaling, exhaling, and keeping the mouth above water.

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24. B This is a rip current—a stream of water flowing away from shore. More than 100 Americans drown in them each year. They can form anywhere with breaking waves and are common around low spots, breaks in sandbars, piers, and jetties. Polarized sunglasses help you see them.

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25. C Rip currents are typically only 30 to 100 feet wide, so you can easily escape them before they carry you out to sea. BUT, swimming against the current will exhaust you!

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26. B Lightning is attracted to high points, and since wet rock conducts electricity, lightning can also arc across slabs and cave openings.

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27. With a black bear, fight back. With a grizzly, play dead by lying on your belly, legs spread for stability(to keep it from flipping you over) and hands over your neck. If the bear does roll you, keep rolling back onto your belly. (one point for each)

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31. C Panic usually strikes the moment you realize your predicament. While the sensation is intense, says survival expert, Doug Ritter, “For most people, that panic dissipates quickly and generally before they do anything really stupid.” Haste can be good or bad depending on the situation, and overconfidence can get you into further trouble. But despair saps the will to live, the # 1 reason people make it through!

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32. B Fight: Self-arrest, grab a tree, or swim to the side or back of the slide, to avoid being sucked into the subducting head. If you’re in the head and likely will get buried once the slide stops, focus on forming a breathing space with your hands to disperse carbon dioxide.

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33. B Keep your boots on until you’re in a place where you can revive your feet permanently (camp, cabin, the car). If you rewarm them in the field, two things can happen: First, they might swell up, preventing you from getting your boots back on, and 2 nd they might refreeze, causing more damage. Never use a fire or massage to warm tissues, which burn easily under dry heat.

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Sir Ernest Shackleton In December 1914, Shackleton set sail with his 27-man crew, many of whom, it is said, had responded to the following recruitment notice: "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. —Ernest Shackleton." The wooden ship became trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. For 10 months, the Endurance drifted, locked within the ice, until the pressure crushed the ship. With meager food, clothing and shelter, Shackleton and his men were stranded on the ice floes, where they camped for five months.

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When encountered open leads of water, the men sailed the three small lifeboats to Elephant Island. They were on land for the first time in 497 days; however, it was uninhabited and, due to its distance from shipping lanes, provided no hope for rescue. Recognizing the severity of the physical and mental strains on his men, Shackleton and five others set out to take the crew's rescue into their own hands. In a 22-foot lifeboat, they accomplished the impossible, surviving a 17- day, 800-mile journey through the world's worst seas to South Georgia Island, where a whaling station was located.

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The six men landed on an uninhabited part of the island, however, so their last hope was to cross 26 miles of mountains and glaciers, considered impassable, to reach the whaling station on the other side. Starved, frostbitten and wearing rags, Shackleton and two others made the trek and, in August 1916, 21 months after the initial departure of the Endurance, Shackleton himself returned to rescue the men on Elephant Island. Although they'd withstood the most incredible hardship, not one member of the 28-man crew was lost.